Welcome to Hopewell ...Hopewell is located Hopewell is located in Leon County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Hopewell, you might consider that their post office opened in 1896. Hopewell is 410 feet [125 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Hopewell lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time While we believe that this Hopewell is located in Leon County, we know of another 4 Texas communities named Hopewell. Those communities are located in the following counties: Franklin, Houston, Lamar and Red River County. Beyond Texas, there are 85 communities that are also named Hopewell - they are located in Alabama (6), Arkansas (6), Connecticut (2), Florida (2), Georgia (4), Illinois (2), Indiana (3), Kansas (3), Kentucky (4), Maryland (2), Mississippi (6), Missouri (3), New Jersey, New Mexico, New York (2), Newfoundland and Labrador, North Carolina (3), Nova Scotia, Ohio (5), Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania (4), South Carolina (2), Tennessee (9), Virginia (2), Washington and West Virginia (4). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Hopewell. We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Hopewell. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Hopewell. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Hopewell. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Hopewell. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hopewell. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Hopewell. See our Newspapers Page for Hopewell. Looking for more information about Hopewell? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Hopewell, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Hopewell. We originally found mention of Hopewell in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Hopewell was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> For more details, see References and Mentions for Hopewell.
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